Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 01:13:00 -1000 From: PoyJ@ice4.kcps.rd.hydro.on.ca Message-Id: <2DEE91F0@gate.rd.hydro.on.ca> Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University Subject: Kiting Events U.K & E.C.S.K.C Hi there, thanks for the email. Lansdown, on the outskirts of Bath is a wonderful place to fly, it is high up and exposed, and you get great views looking down onto the beautiful city of Bath. There is plenty of room for people of all abilities to fly, which can sometimes be a problem at festivals. The best thing about it is that there is always wind up there... but it seems that this doesn't hold true for when there are kite festivals in progress. It was a wonderful sunny weekend, but very little wind. The only competition we managed to do was who could do the most 360's in a minute. I think 9 was the most anyone did. Other impressive attempts were Andrew Beattie pulling 6 360's with his 10m peel, and someone managing to 360 an 8 stack of 6 foot flexifoils. :) Everyone still managed to have fun anyway. Gerry Lawrence email: gerry@bicceri.demon.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Gerry, Thanks for the event breakdown Gerry, sorry to hear that there was no wind during the event, at least it wasn't raining, and you all had a chance to watch or take part in flying in no wind conditions. I was just curious about the different flying styles (Sport Kiting) that have develop in around the world. (Europe, Japan etc.) We just returned from Wildwood kite festival in N.J. where the weather was just fantastic! The winds varied from low to high giving all the fliers a chance to play with. Lots of buggying, Roka battles, teddy bear drops and great fliers demonstrating their flying skills. Beautiful single lines kites everywhere, a huge green duckbill platurepuss SP? and Dolphin (by Peter Lynn) stacks of kites reaching up into the blue sky and so much more! The single line kites this year were just beautiful making this event even more attractive. I call the single line kites the flag ships of all kiting events. Super job gal's and guy's. For all the sport kite fans there were all kinds of colourful banners, and newly design kites, to see and fly. As for competitions and demo's there were indoor, outdoor, flexi challenge, and a night fly. Flier's came from north east, south east coast and mid states in great numbers to participate in this years competitions. It was nice to see that many fliers from the west coast were in attendance. (Team Tsunami, Wind Dancers, Eric & Genny (Huggs) Forsberg and David Gomberg) Even Jim Miller was there working hard on locating a bar for the upcoming convention. B.T.W. he apparently found a good one. I thought the performance of the bag ladies (Quad foils!) was a blast. Also great performances came from Team Tsunami, Chicago Fire, Captain Eddies team Lee, Sue Taft, Dave Britain, Brian (Sliceman), Abel Ortega, Dodd Gross and many others. I truly regret the incident that took place to Dave Britain (Whole bag of his kites were stolen) I disscuss this with him later in the evening. I know how he felt and told him of what my personal experience was in the past. He said me he wished someone could have mentioned it to him prior to this occurrence. Anyway several years ago while I was competing at Wildwood I stake out my custom kite (I build for the competition), lines and all on a competition field. (Stage in area) It was my first year at Wildwood and I didn't know where the restrooms were so I walk to the nearest resturant. On my return, to my surprize my kite, lines, straps and all were stolen. Someone picked it up and just few it away, my heart almost fell out. No kite no line no straps and its your turn to compete, try that. The moral of this story is that as fliers we must try to help and to share in the responsibility of each others equipment and safety. Now when I leave any of my or others fliers equipment, kites etc. I always take the time to ask some flier if he or she would watch it for awhile and if not, DON't just leave it unattended. I have return to Wildwood every year since because of the quality of the fliers who attend this event and people who organize it, not letting these shady characters bother me. I just wanted to pass this on to all fliers hopefully it will prevent other's from the pain and anguish that Dave and I have felt. Jeff and I didn't get the chance to meet all the Rec.kite fliers. :-( :-( I guess it was partly our own fault, after a long winter of temperatures in the minus 40's, we were so happy to see so many of our old friends. Again like most fliers we love kite flying, so between playing, judging and watching, well you can't meet them all. I know this has often been suggested, but someone should develop a pin for rec.kites (Maybe the shepherd of Rec. Kites, MARTY Hint hint ;-) so at least we could all have some sort of way to recognize each other. Last year I made up some name cards for us to do just that, at Seaside, it worked. Rec. kite fliers actually acknowledge it. As for all the rec.kiters we didn't meet at Wildwood and say hello to, the years still young. To the event coordinator Roger Chewning, all the judges, staff and volunteers, thanks again for another great event. It should be fun when the Nationals roll around, by then I should have got the sand out of my sneakers ;-) Jim & Jeff Poy B.T.W. nice to hear from you Dave Butler way out there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on the west coast. Now how did we meet him? Hmm.....Rec.kites maybe ;-) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 15:43:00 -1000 From: PoyJ@ice4.kcps.rd.hydro.on.ca Message-Id: <2DEE0C56@gate.rd.hydro.on.ca> Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University Subject: Kiting Events U.K & E.C.S.K.C Hi there, thanks for the email. Lansdown, on the outskirts of Bath is a wonderful place to fly, it is high up and exposed, and you get great views looking down onto the beautiful city of Bath. There is plenty of room for people of all abilities to fly, which can sometimes be a problem at festivals. The best thing about it is that there is always wind up there... but it seems that this doesn't hold true for when there are kite festivals in progress. It was a wonderful sunny weekend, but very little wind. The only competition we managed to do was who could do the most 360's in a minute. I think 9 was the most anyone did. Other impressive attempts were Andrew Beattie pulling 6 360's with his 10m peel, and someone managing to 360 an 8 stack of 6 foot flexifoils. :) Everyone still managed to have fun anyway. Gerry Lawrence email: gerry@bicceri.demon.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Gerry, Thanks for the event breakdown Gerry, sorry to hear that there was no wind during the event, at least it wasn't raining, and you all had a chance to watch or take part in flying in no wind conditions. I was just curious about the different flying styles (Sport Kiting) that have develop in around the world. (Europe, Japan etc.) We just returned from Wildwood kite festival in N.J. where the weather was just fantastic! The winds varied from low to high giving all the fliers a chance to play with. Lots of buggying, Roka battles, teddy bear drops and great fliers demonstrating their flying skills. Beautiful single lines kites everywhere, a huge green duckbill platurepuss SP? and Dolphin (by Peter Lynn) stacks of kites reaching up into the blue sky and so much more! The single line kites this year were just beautiful making this event even more attractive. I call the single line kites the flag ships of all kiting events. Super job gal's and guy's. For all the sport kite fans there were all kinds of colourful banners, and newly design kites, to see and fly. As for competitions and demo's there were indoor, outdoor, flexi challenge, and a night fly. Flier's came from north east, south east coast and mid states in great numbers to participate in this years competitions. It was nice to see that many fliers from the west coast were in attendance. (Team Tsunami, Wind Dancers, Eric & Genny (Huggs) Forsberg and David Gomberg) Even Jim Miller was there working hard on locating a bar for the upcoming convention. B.T.W. he apparently found a good one. I thought the performance of the bag ladies (Quad foils!) was a blast. Also great performances came from Team Tsunami, Chicago Fire, Captain Eddies team Lee, Sue Taft, Dave Britain, Brian (Sliceman), Abel Ortega, Dodd Gross and many others. I truly regret the incident that took place to Dave Britain (Whole bag of his kites were stolen) I disscuss this with him later in the evening. I know how he felt and told him of what my personal experience was in the past. He said me he wished someone could have mentioned it to him prior to this occurrence. Anyway several years ago while I was competing at Wildwood I stake out my custom kite (I build for the competition), lines and all on a competition field. (Stage in area) It was my first year at Wildwood and I didn't know where the restrooms were so I walk to the nearest resturant. On my return, to my surprize my kite, lines, straps and all were stolen. Someone picked it up and just few it away, my heart almost fell out. No kite no line no straps and its your turn to compete, try that. The moral of this story is that as fliers we must try to help and to share in the responsibility of each others equipment and safety. Now when I leave any of my or others fliers equipment, kites etc. I always take the time to ask some flier if he or she would watch it for awhile and if not, DON't just leave it unattended. I have return to Wildwood every year since because of the quality of the fliers who attend this event and people who organize it, not letting these shady characters bother me. I just wanted to pass this on to all fliers hopefully it will prevent other's from the pain and anguish that Dave and I have felt. Jeff and I didn't get the chance to meet all the Rec.kite fliers. :-( :-( I guess it was partly our own fault, after a long winter of temperatures in the minus 40's, we were so happy to see so many of our old friends. Again like most fliers we love kite flying, so between playing, judging and watching, well you can't meet them all. I know this has often been suggested, but someone should develop a pin for rec.kites (Maybe the shepherd of Rec. Kites, MARTY Hint hint ;-) so at least we could all have some sort of way to recognize each other. Last year I made up some name cards for us to do just that, at Seaside, it worked. Rec. kite fliers actually acknowledge it. As for all the rec.kiters we didn't meet at Wildwood and say hello to, the years still young. To the event coordinator Roger Chewning, all the judges, staff and volunteers, thanks again for another great event. It should be fun when the Nationals roll around, by then I should have got the sand out of my sneakers ;-) Jim & Jeff Poy B.T.W. nice to hear from you Dave Butler way out there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on the west coast. Now how did we meet him? Hmm.....Rec.kites maybe ;-) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =